Hat-fastening.



T. L. HOLLAND & W. H. GURTIN.

HAT FASTENING. APPLiOATION FILE-D SEPT. 21, 1909.

Patented July 19,1910.

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HAT-FASTENING.

Specification of Letters 'Patent.

Application filed September 27, 1909.

Patented July 19, 1910. Serial No. 519,723.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, TIMOTHY L. HOL- LAND and WILLIAM H. CURTIN, each aciti' zen of the United States, residing at Schenectady, county ofSchenectady, and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Hat-Fastenings, of which the following is aspecification.

The invention relates to such improvements and consists of the novelconstruction and combination of parts hereinafter described andsubsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the referencecharacters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several figurestherein.

Figure l of the drawings is a central vertical section of our improvedhat-pin guide attached to a hat. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the conicalguide with its smaller end uppermost. Flg. 3 is a plan view of theattaching base for the conical guide.

The drawings illustrate the device on an exaggerated scale.

The principal object of the invention is to facilitate mounting upon aladys hat a conical guide for a hat-pin. It is desirable to attach ahat-pin guide to the hat by sewing the two together. As the conicalguide lies quite close to the attaching surface on the inner side of thehat, it is found difficult to make the necessary connection by sewing tothe hat an attaching base for the guide if the guide is permanentlymounted upon said base, unless the body of the attaching base be a plateof such large dimensions as to be cumbersome. In carrying out ourinvention we employ an attaching base-plate of considerably smallerdiameter than the conical guide, and mount the guide upon saidbase-plate after the latter has been sewed to the hat.

Referring to the drawing wherein the invention is shown in preferredform, 1, is the conical guide and, 2, the attaching base therefor, bothpreferably formed of resilient sheet-metal. The conical guide terminatesat its smaller end in a split sleeve, 3, the members of which haveoutwardly bent catches, 4, formed thereon. At the center of thebase-plate the base is made tubular as shown at, 5, said tubular portionbeing adapted to tightly receive the split sleeve, 3, of the guide; andsaid tubular portion is provided with apertures, 6, adapted to receivethe catches, 4., which enter said apertures with a snap action, whenbrought opposite thereto. When thus interlocked the parts are lockedtogether with substantial permanency, although, if necessary, they canbe separated by compressing the split sleeve 3.

In attaching the guide, the attaching base separated from the conicalguide is sewed to the hat by stitches passing through thethread-receiving apertures, 7 in the baseplate 2. After the attachmentof the baseplate has been accomplished in this manner the split sleeve,3, is forced within the tubular portion, 5, of the base until thecatches, 4, are brought opposite the apertures, 6, which theyrespectively enter with a snap action. The base-plate, 2, can thus bemade of a considerably less diameter than the conical guide, 1, and yetbe sewed to the hat conveniently. The hat-pin is directed toward theconical guide by means of a split guide-tube, 8 sewed to the interior ofthe hat opposite the conical guide 1.

By compressing the members of the split tube, 8, said tube can beadapted to fit and guide pins of smaller diameter than the normaldiameter of said tube.

The hat-pin is indicated by dotted lines, 10, and broken-away portionsof the hat are shown at 9.

What we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1. In adevice of the class described, and in combination, a conical guide for apinpoint and an attaching base therefor of less diameter than saidguide, and provided with thread-receiving apertures whereby it can besewed to a hat, said guide and base having one a socket and the other aresilient catch adapted to interlock with said socket.

2. In a device of the class described, and in combination, a conicalguide of resilient sheet-metal terminating at its smaller end in a splitsleeve, members of which have outwardly bent catches formed thereon, and

an attaching base of smaller diameter than said guide provided withthread-receiving set our hands this 13th day of September, apertureswhereby it can be attached to a 1909. hat, and having a tubular portionadapted to receive said split sleeve and provided with 5 aperturesadapted to receive said catches whereby said guide and base areinterlocked together.

In testimony whereof, we have hereunto TIMOTHY L. HOLLAND. WILLIAM H.CURTIN.

Witnesses:

ROBERT DONLAN, THOMAS H. WELGH.

